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the average enrollment of students in the State 

 Normal School was 320. Seventy per cent are 

 the children of farmers, ten per cent of me- 

 chanics, four per ceut of merchants, six per 

 cent of professional men, ten per cent of labor- 

 ers, railroad men, etc. Since the organization 

 of the school, in 1870, it has been attended by 

 3,500 students. 



The General Assembly has invested all the 

 endowment funds of Purdue University in one 

 Indiana State bond of $350,000, which yields 

 annually $17,000, an amount that is sufficient 

 to pay the salaries of the members of the 

 faculty. During the year ending October 31, 

 1881, the students were classified as follow: 

 Post-graduates, 2 ; college classes, 90 ; school 

 of chemistry, 11; industrial art, 25; agricul- 

 tural, 2 ; mechanics, 10 ; academic, 141. To- 

 tal, 254. 



PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. The report of the 

 trustees of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, for the 

 fiscal year ending with October, gives the fol- 

 lowing facts : The appropriation for the sup- 

 port of the institution was $55,000, and of 

 this amount $52,816.87 was expended, leaving 

 $3,181.33 in the treasury. The appraised value 

 of the property of the institution is $457,782 

 in real, and $35,527.05 in personal, making the 

 total appraised value $493,837.05. The num- 

 ber of pupils during the year was 383. Of 

 these 44 were dismissed from the institution, 

 and 342 remain. The cost per capita, exclusive 

 of clothing, was $156.30. The necessity for 

 more buildings is urgent, and repairs upon the 

 present property are needed. An appropria- 

 tion of $62,000 for annual expenses is asked 

 for the next two years. Of the pupils now in 

 attendance, 206 are males and 177 are females. 

 The number of counties represented is 84, the 

 largest number being 33, from Marion. Vander- 

 burg County has 13 pupils, and Wayne, Tippe- 

 canoe, and Montgomery, each 11. During the 

 year fifty-six applicants for admission were re- 

 fused, for want of room to accommodate them. 



In their twenty-sixth annual report the Trus- 

 tees of the Blind Asylum state that the total re- 

 sources of the institution during the year were 

 $29,210.80, and the total expenditures $28,- 

 906.86. The cost of maintenance per capita 

 was $206.48, exclusive of clothing, for the 

 year. The total number of persons now under 

 the care of the asylum is 128. Additional 

 room, for the accommodation of one hundred 

 more pupils, is urgently needed. 



In the Asylum for Feeble- Minded Children 

 and Soldiers' Orphans' Home, an average of 

 235 children were cared for during the year, at 

 $127 per capita. 



The thirty-fourth annual report of the Indi- 

 ana Hospital for the Insane shows a total value 

 of the property of the institution, real and 

 personal, amounting to $1,430,003.15. During 

 the last year the revenue was $245,000 for 

 maintenance, $12,000 for clothing, and $7,500 

 for repairs, making a total of $264,500. Dis- 

 bursements amounting to $233,519.84 were 



made, $216,690.52 being for maintenance, $7,- 

 490.84 for repairs, and $9,338.48 for clothing. 

 During the year the daily average number of 

 inmates was 1,085, who have been maintained 

 at a per capita expense per annum of $194. 

 The Legislature is urged to complete the de- 

 partment for women, to meet the demand for 

 greater accommodations. The number of cases 

 refused admittance was 79, and over 200 chronic 

 patients were discharged for this reason solely. 



The number of patients treated was 1,827. 

 Of those discharged 378 were restored to rea- 

 son, 121 improved, 116 not improved, 10 were 

 not insane, 2 were idiotic, and 105 died. The 

 ratio of recoveries is 48 per cent, and of deaths 

 5 T 6 Tr per cent. The superintendent recom- 

 mends the construction of a central hospital, 

 with a capacity of about four hundred patients, 

 for the recently insane ; and the use of the 

 present institution, by slight alterations in the 

 buildings, for the 1,800 chronic cases solely. 



The annual report of the Superintendent of 

 the House of Refuge shows that the current 

 expenses of the institution were $45,000. The 

 State Treasurer received $20,000 from counties, 

 which was placed to their credit, and the 

 earnings were $3,000, leaving about $22,000 to 

 be paid by the State. There is an enrollment 

 of 372 boys confined at the house, forty-nine of 

 whom are colored. During the year 200 boys 

 were refused admittance on account of lack of 

 room for keeping them, and 182 were released. 

 Of this number 95 per cent are doing well, 

 and four former inmates have been sentenced 

 to imprisonment in the Penitentiary. During 

 the year a new laundry and new gymnasium 

 have been added. In the system of conducting 

 the school the boys are divided into eight 

 families. One half of each day in the week is 

 devoted to school duties, and the remainder to 

 work. The mode of punishment is deprivation 

 of privileges, slow promotion, and extension of 

 term of confinement. Homes were found for 

 sixty-nine, one was made an officer for exem- 

 plary conduct, and thirty-two boys, out on 

 tickets-of-leave, were returned to the institu- 

 tion. 



The annual report of the Board of Managers 

 of the Indiana Reformatory for "Women and 

 Girls states that there are fifty -five convicts in 

 the penal department, and thirty-three were 

 received during the year. Twenty-two were 

 discharged upon the expiration of their terms, 

 and one released for a new trial. The number 

 of girls in the reformatory department is 144. 

 During the year fifty-one were committed and 

 seven returned from tickets-of-leave. Twenty- 

 one were discharged, forty released on tickets- 

 of-leave, and one died. The average number of 

 inmates during the year was 192, five more 

 than in any previous year. The expenditures, 

 including salaries, repairs, and improvements, 

 amounted to $28,000. The cost of maintain- 

 ing and educating the inmates of the institu- 

 tion is $2.39 a week each. The girls are in- 

 structed in the rudimentary branches, and, 



